"Here she comes! Who the fuck? Is that? Just what the hell happed on that ship?"
"Stephanie, you did give her a lecture to find what crawled up her ass didn't you?"
"Well, I didn't mean for her to bring him home with her..."
"You sound like she's found a stray pup!"
"Momma, Poppa..." Dove dropped her bags and ran up the rest of the driveway to give her adopted parents a giant hug. She was happy and clear headed after taking time right off the boat to get the help she needed to deal with the past. Both Jericho and Johnny 3Tears went right with her to admit herself for the two long program she entered herself into, first was to handle her mental health followed by a month for alcoholism and dependance. Now she was finally able to go home to see her family and have the long overdue talk with her parents about what set her on her path of self-destruction.
"Hey Steph, Paul. It's been a while." Jericho smiled walking up with his hand reached out to shake Paul Levesque's hand but ended up being pulled into a bear hug.
"I told you he missed you!" Dove laughed "you told me to do some soul-searching Momma, and I had lots of time to do just that once Johnny and the guys threw my ass on the sobriety wagon. I've been off the booze since day one of the cruise!" she stated proudly "...and that soul searching is exactly why I'm here." she stated now biting her lip nervously.
Walking over he placed his hand onto dove's lower back and kissed her head "I'm right here!" was all Jericho needed to say.
"Let's take this inside while the girls can play outside" Steph suggested softly seeing in both their eye's this wasn't an easy topic for any to go through and led her adopted daughter by the hand and into the house.
Inside Dove told her parent's everything going back to the day she left Jericho on into finding that out she was suffering threw a dangerous miscarriage. Her fear of rejection turning into anger and slowly into alcohol dependance. It wasn't easy to hear and all four cried silently as she spoke. She told them about difficult rehab was these last two months even though it was voluntary she wanted to just pack up and run away but anytime she'd call for a ride Army of One kept popping into her head and not for the song but the fact two completely different bands got together and sang it as one just for her and she'd go back in for the next meeting.
"I told you..."Stephanie spoke up looking directly at Dove "I told you; I had never known Chris to do anything that would purposely hurt you... I am very happy to see that you two are back together and from what I hear you both have a great support system behind you both. Now Catherin how about we get cleaned up and we take the girls and pick up some pizza and let the boy's talk." she suggested to the younger woman as she stood up and led her off.
"She wasn't who I remembered when I saw her getting on that ship. The first thing I seen her do was go right to the bar and get a few shots of the hardest shit I know and throw them back like Kool-Aid. Then I heard how she had an intervention by Hollywood Undead by all groups. I had no idea she was in tight with them so I didn't think about it much until I seen her sitting with one of them, I could have sworn she was dating the guy, but he left us and we talked. Shit Paul, if it wasn't for you, I don't know how I'd ever get through those four days..."
HHH nodded "Johhny told me of the pact he planned to make with her. That's how I knew I had to get ahold of you, you know that when it comes to Catherin that I'd do anything for her even if she hated me for it. I knew this cruise was what she needed and not to boost her career. She needed a rock bottom moment to get that stick out of her ass and with you and Johnny there I knew she stood a good chance at coming out on top."
"Just one question... How did Martha get on that ship in the first place?" Jericho asked point blank knowing who had given it to Dove in the first place. Clasping his shoulder, HHH stood up smirking and walked off without a word.